Ah now I have Site content types, site columns and all other site settings options available. I’m looking at creating metadata fields on my documents stored in OneDrive for Business and I notices that there isn’t a list settings in my settings menu. Maybe I should have called this article “How to break your OneDrive” in 10 minutes.” So there is a strong warning here “Don’t do this at home!” Office 365 protection center (for mail flow and other functionality due to move to the Exchange admin center).By Pieter Veenstra Metadata in Onedrive for Business.Exchange admin center (both old and new versions).This consolidation is a good thing, but even when Microsoft retires the OneDrive admin center, a reasonable daily tour of admin centers for a global administrator might include checking in on 8 portals: Too many admin portals exist across Microsoft 365 (Figure 2).This is important because it means that you don’t need to assign global administrator or other highly-permissioned roles to users to allow them to perform entry-level tasks like reviewing reports. The SharePoint Online admin center supports new Azure AD roles, like Global Reader.Migration, for instance, finds a home in the new center to host tools like Mover ( bought in 2019) that it doesn’t have in the classic portal. Microsoft has been steadily building out the new admin center for the last few years to replace the older version inherited from on-premises servers.
The SharePoint Online admin center uses a relatively new framework that’s better suited to new development.Microsoft notes that its accessibility is not a strong point. Phase 2 (mid-March) brings the excitement of a link from the OneDrive admin center to the SharePoint Online admin center and a banner announcing the change. Indeed, phase 1 has already happened as four areas of OneDrive administration are now in the Settings section of the SharePoint Online admin center (Figure 1).įigure 1: OneDrive for Business settings in the SharePoint Online admin center Consolidation within ODSPĪll of which brings us to February 18’s totally predictable news in MC240393 that Microsoft plans to combine SharePoint and OneDrive management into the SharePoint Online admin center. Even Microsoft’s latest organizational structure refers to the development group as ODSP (OneDrive and SharePoint). One deals with corporate document management, the other with personal document management. Most organizations treat the products as two peas in the same pod. Of course, SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business are closely intertwined in areas like underlying storage and sharing behavior, and the same PowerShell module processes both SharePoint and OneDrive sites. It was almost as if Microsoft wanted to tell everyone that OneDrive was different, that it closely aligned to the consumer variant, and had nothing to do with SharePoint Online.
I never quite understood why Microsoft insisted on having a separate portal for OneDrive for Business.
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